Don Lemon Compares Federal Prosecution To Authoritarian Regime

Don Lemon thinks there could have been some shady dealings with the grand jury proceedings that led to his indictment … and he is evaluating his federal prosecution to one thing you would possibly see in Russia, China, or Iran.

The previous CNN anchor needs his authorized workforce to get their paws on the transcripts from the grand jury proceedings in his case to see if the federal government misled jurors into charging him with federal crimes … based on new authorized docs obtained by TMZ.

Don appears to assume there is a good probability the federal government could have misrepresented key points to the grand jury to safe an indictment … seeing as a Justice of the Peace and decide thought-about the proof towards him and declined prices earlier than the grand jury lastly indicted him.

Within the docs, Don says federal conduct in his case has been “highly unusual, nakedly political and inconsistent” with different circumstances in Minnesota. He says the feds had been below strain from President Trump to safe an indictment and so they went to a grand jury and bought one.

Don says … “These circumstances — never before seen in this District, and for good reason — raise serious concerns about the government’s presentation to the grand jury. To date, everything in this case has been irregular; we can assume the grand jury proceedings were too.”

Grand jury proceedings are normally stored secret, however Don says the necessity for disclosure right here outweighs the significance of conventional grand jury secrecy.

The fees stem from an ICE protest Don insists he was simply overlaying as a journalist final month in Minnesota … the demonstration ripped by a church and disrupted a service.

Federal prosecutors declare Don collaborated with protest organizers, however he is maintained he was merely there in his capability as a journalist. He appeared in court docket Friday and pleaded not responsible.